Gregory Maxwell

Gregory Maxwell was shot by St. Louis police Wednesday after he wandered into a St. Louis office building and began stabbing himself and his puppy. The man died later at a hospital; police didn't say in September whether he died of stab wounds or from being shot. The puppy was being treated and is expected to survive, police said. About 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, a caller told police the man had come into the private offices of Renaissance Financial and refused to leave. Police said the man was on the third floor of the office building, “appeared to be having a mental health crisis” and was walking around the office with his puppy and sitting in different chairs. When officers arrived, the man grabbed a pair of scissors and began stabbing his pit bull puppy. This happened in the private offices of Renaissance Financial. An officer used a Taser to try to stop him from stabbing the puppy. The man broke free from the Taser and went down the stairwell to the second floor as he stabbed himself in the neck. In the hallway, he sat down. Officers, in the tight hallway, ordered him to drop the scissors. Instead of dropping the scissors, “he went from a seated position to a standing position,” police Major Janice Bockstruck told reporters. The “officer felt he was in danger of his life and discharged his firearm after seeing the numerous violent actions this person had already taken.”